After you upgrade your vRealize Automation from version 6.x to version 7.2, you can migrate your existing external Orchestrator 6.x Virtual Appliance to the Orchestrator server that is built into vRealize Automation 7.2.

About this task

Note:

If you have a distributed vRealize Automation environment with multiple vRealize Automation Appliance nodes, perform the migration procedure only on the primary vRealize Automation node.

Prerequisites

Upgrade your vRealize Automation from version 6.x to version 7.2.

Stop the Orchestrator server service and the Control Center service of the external Orchestrator.

Back up the database, including the database schema, of the external Orchestrator server.

Procedure

Download the migration tool from the target Orchestrator server to the source Orchestrator.

Log in to the vRealize Orchestrator 6.x Virtual Appliance over SSH as root.

Under the /var/lib/vco directory, run the scp command to download the migration-tool.zip archive.